Create Something Quotes

#1. Any time you can create something that gets to a large audience is fantastic. And television still gets you to a huge audience.

Jerry Bruckheimer

#2. Financial firms are sending their back-office jobs overseas. But what do fine artists do? They create something new, unexpected, and delightful that changes the world. MFA abilities are harder to outsource and more important in an abundant world.

Daniel H. Pink

#3. My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For me photography is writing, it is history; it can be aesthetic, it can be many things though it does not have to be art.

Graciela Iturbide

#4. When you create something that connects, your story will travel faster than ever before.

Jeremy Gutsche

#5. In the theatre, as anyone knows who's even done amateur theatre all their lives, you immediately find a family there. Because you're under stress, you're trying to create something, you're putting on a show, you find brothers and sisters right away.

Saul Rubinek

#6. The challenges we face in life are not meant to be some sort of punishment; rather, they are an invitation to change - and an opportunity to create something even better than before.

Sam Cawthorn

#7. I've always thought of my writing as a spiritual practice. But I think that fiction is the most supernatural kind of writing that you can do because of the ways that the real and the unreal weave together to create something that feels more true than anything.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. Give me something in between the spectrums of light, darkness and sound and most days I will create something out of it for you.

Dimitri Zaik

#9. I wanted to create jobs and create something that had a very longstanding world-changing effect. We were close. We were close to getting there. It just fell apart.

Curt Schilling

#10. The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.

Gustavo Dudamel

#11. When I started Virgin from a basement flat in West London, I did not set
out to build a business empire. I set out to create something I enjoyed
that would pay the bills.

Richard Branson

#12. As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but also the world within you.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#13. Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire.

Mike Murdock

#14. Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together.

James Genn

#15. When you create something out of nothing it's the most thrilling thing.

Frankie Knuckles

#16. Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

Anna Deavere Smith

#17. There's not much cooking in our household. We do a lot of raw food, so it's more about putting the right ingredients together to create something scrumptious.

Jason Mraz

#18. I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.

Ozzy Osbourne

#19. And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest.

Cressida Cowell

#20. Never rest on past success. Create something better.

Ron Kaufman

#21. When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

Michael Ironside

#22. Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#23. I try to absorb all types of style and design. I don't try and restrict my thinking. I enjoy the old and the new. You need that broad perspective to create something different.

Chad Hurley

#24. You can create something that is pure genius, but you have to get your timing right.

Lang Leav

#25. To create something and not to be attached to what you have created is a spiritual process.

Jaggi Vasudev

#26. We've tried to create something that's much more like being at a mountain resort. Many of these types of facilities done in the past paid little regard to structure or the environment and just focused on the sport of skiing. We've gone a step further and provided an immersive environment.

Phil Taylor

#27. The noble man wants to create something new and a new virtue. The good want the old, and that old should be preserved.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#28. By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.

William Faulkner

#29. The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.

Joni Mitchell

#30. Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists, to put it into form and sometimes reformulate it ... I didn't invent anything, I indicated.

Annette Messager

#31. I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

Michelle Branch

#32. Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying ... There is always something you can do ... Create something, a play reading ... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.

Deirdre O'Kane

#33. You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

Vidal Sassoon

#34. What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.

Marianne Williamson

#35. You have to create something from nothing.

Ralph Lauren

#36. Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

John Sununu

#37. There is no recipe for friendship. Just a bunch of ingredients that different people put together in different ways to create something magical between them.

Toni Sorenson

#38. Every time we create something new we go from zero to one.

Peter Thiel

#39. Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.

Oscar Isaac

#40. I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

Julie Andrews

#41. This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

Fred Astaire

#42. The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan

#43. The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

Nicola Griffith

#44. In a time of destruction, create something.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#45. OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.

Tom Peters

#46. We all like to complain about movies, shows, comics, and the like. This is your chance to put your money where your mouth is! Instead of complaining about what bad stories there are, create something better yourself.

Comfort Love

#47. A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.

Tom Ford

#48. What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.

Eric Liu

#49. Maybe a good goal would be to just at least always try to create something good. Like something that is connected to love in some way. Like the [musical] equivalent of ... you can make a decision to be kind. You can make a decision to greet people kindly and make jokes with people and connect.

Joanna Newsom

#50. It's the unbridled passion and the fearlessness to just go into something with reckless abandon that allows you to create something from nothing. That allows you to innovate. That allows you to take things to the extreme.

Paul Heyman

#51. Playing it safe and tiptoeing through life is exhausting. Keeping all of your gifts trapped inside tires the crap out of you. It takes the same amount of effort to create something extraordinary as it takes to create something ordinary.

Lysa Mateu

#52. Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.

Nancy Lancaster

#53. Doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1. The act of creation is singular, as is the moment of creation, and the result is something fresh and strange.

Peter Thiel

#54. There is a difference between obsessive perfectionism and taking time to create something that is the best you can offer. Knowing what needs to be better and stretching to improve yourself is what separates the mediocre from the marvelous.

Suzanna Reeves

#55. Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

#56. It amazed me how some people could touch an instrument and create something so beautiful, and when others tried, like me, it just sounded like mangled noise.

Ruta Sepetys

#57. Thank you, Edward. You really are special. Being able to create something so wonderful ... But it's too bad ...
... You couldn't put me back together too.
Trisha Elric

Hiromu Arakawa

#58. I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.

Criss Jami

#59. I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is. You don't have to be a film director - you can do gardening or something - but I think everyone needs to create something.

Ricky Gervais

#60. I want to take care of people. I want to help people. The maximum joy that I have is when I can create something that makes someone else's life lighter, brighter, or better.

Will Smith

#61. You let your past destroy you, or you use it to create something better

Tyler Perry

#62. I love to work with artists that were able to find a brand new name and create something really exciting and fresh.

Steve Aoki

#63. Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy.

Billy Corgan

#64. Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

Hattie McDaniel

#65. I want to create something like Sony. Not in terms of manufacturing products but creating something that is innovative, makes money, improves peoples' lives.

Richard Li

#66. If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

Minor White

#67. I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

Michael Haneke

#68. You Can Create Light Out of Darkness.
You can create something out of nothing
You can create advantage out of disadvantage

Ikechukwu Joseph

#69. Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

Orrin Woodward

#70. I wanted to create something that broke rules and made women feel confident and empowered.

Christian Louboutin

#71. I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple.

Yoko Ono

#72. As an actress, I'm supposed to create something from head to toes, with clues, with lines, with shapes, and even with that power, I felt lost and not in control.

Ludivine Sagnier

#73. I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

Randy Jackson

#74. It was as if his song was one voice, calling out into the darkness until it was answered by another, harmonizing with its own unique voice and emotion to create something even more beautiful than the sum of its parts.

Erik Tomblin

#75. If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented.

Fred Wilson

#76. If I can create something that allows a woman to feel better - that is the true reward.

Maria Sharapova

#77. You are more than your thoughts, your body, or your feelings. You are a swirling vortex of limitless potential who is here to shake things up and create something new that the universe has never seen.

Richard Bartlett

#78. I took a shot and tried to create something world changing and it didn't work out. I gave it everything I had, literally, and now I'm just trying to manage day by day and it's been challenging but my wife and my kids are healthy, and I'm OK.

Curt Schilling

#79. How can such scary looking parents create something so cute?

Chetan Bhagat

#80. Life, Vin said. You said that the only reason to create something was so that you could destroy it.

Brandon Sanderson

#81. What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and had large tonal ambitions. A movie that could be poignant and funny, and suddenly quite violent. To have a character utterly sideswiped, and to learn that life is about balance.

Edward Norton

#82. If I can create something unique in the world, so can you.

Sci Furz

#83. You can't disbelieve the truth away. You can cover the truth, you can create something new, but either way you have to believe what you are creating.

Kalayna Price

#84. You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.

Chick Corea

#85. Since the first 'Singham,' many films have that kind of action. So we have to work harder to create something new.

Rohit Shetty

#86. Maybe this is what happens when you fall in love. On the outside a lighter is nothing amazing, but it holds all the ingredients that can create something wonderful. With a few pushes in the right direction, you can inspire something so brilliant that it pushes back the darkness.

Katie McGarry

#87. If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don't respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don't respect is a business model that encourages piracy.

Kim Dotcom

#88. Music has the power to unite us. It proves that by working together, we can create something truly beautiful.

Pinchas Zukerman

#89. Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value

Eric Schmidt

#90. I think the word 'social entrepreneur' is a really good description of what I am. What that means me to is that you have the entrepreneurial gift and spirit to create something out of nothing.

Blake Mycoskie

#91. For years, we have been asking the E.U. to create something similar to the Russia-NATO council. Not in order to simply exchange opinions and work out recommendations, but to make decisions.

Sergei Lavrov

#92. Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

Robert Caro

#93. It's better to look for the people that look like you and do something with them, create something new - the mainstream isn't that special anyways.

Lotic

#94. If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won't leave people saying, 'Gee, it could have been better, it could've been this, it could've been that.'

Billy West

#95. This next song is familiar - surprisingly gentle, like a kitten walking through high grass - and it seems so unlike Jake to create something this beautiful.

Matthew Quick

#96. The goal, then, isn't to draw some positioning charts and announce that you have differentiated your product. No, the opportunity is to actually create something that people choose to talk about, regardless of what the competition is doing.

Seth Godin

#97. I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

Joe Jonas

#98. It's incomprehensible to me why a magician would create something that can be used against him. It's like giving your sword to your previously unarmed enemy, and then being surprised when he stabs you with it!" Bruns

Maria V. Snyder

#99. The great thing, as a screenwriter, is that you are always proud of what ends up on the screen, you are able to create something in isolation and you have a lot of freedom.

Jamie Linden

#100. They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.

Daryl Hannah